Re: Long Delay After Login

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, eric wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 14:00:33 -0400, George A. Theall proclaimed...
>
> > Sounds like you're interested in developing a web interface to launching
> > scans. Have you looked into Inprotect or Tenable's own Lightning
> > Console? If you're still interested in rolling your own, you might want
> > to consider simply defining some standard scans or letting people select
> > plugin families and then using one of the update-nessusrc scripts to
> > create the appropriate config file before launching a scan.
>
> Would this be configured on the server? I'm not sure how to let people use
> standard scans or how to configure plugin families.

Hi Eric,
I think what George meant was that you can predefine a few different nessusrc files 
for different types of scans and then the user can select what type of scan they 
want to run via your interface of choice. Your interface then runs the nessus scan with
your predefined configuration file that the user selected. The other
possibility is to create the nessus configuration file on the fly
via one of the update-nessusrc scripts that can be downloaded here:

www.tifaware.com/perl/update-nessusrc/ 
www.edgeos.com/downloads/update-nessusrc.tar.gz

use the -i, -c, -f flags to select the specific plugins, catagories and families that 
the user selects.

--
 - Josh
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